Pain Relief in Labour

All Pregnant women are frightened about going through labour pain. Will I be able to tolerate it and overcome it? Is the common fear among them. The joy of giving birth is always clubbed with labour pain. The tolerance level differs for every individual.

There are many ways to reduce the labour pain during the birth. Mental preparedness is the first step in the birth process. The labour preparatory classes enable this. Your husband's presence in the labour room is also important and gives a strong bonding.
The pain relievers as injected to relieve pain. The type of pain relief that is apt depends on the pain threshold. some have higer tolerance capacities. The ability to bear the labour pain depends on the length of labour, intensity of the labour pains and the size of the baby.

Narcotic like pethedine are used as pain relievers int he first stages of labour. These are usually injected into the muscle or into the veins. There are newer methods like 'Epidural Analgesia' which completely blocks the pain in a specific part of the body. This cuts off the labour pain without interfering with action of labour contractions.

In this method the medicine is injected in the lower part of the back. Usually a small tube is inserted from which the medicine can be repeated. When lower doses are administred it eases the pain of contractions and numbs the birth canal during labour ad delivery. The contractions still occur but the pain is not experienced.

When drugs like Pethidine are administered it causes some side effects to the baby as well as the mother. However, these are eliminated when the 'Epidural Analgesia' is adopted. These do not pass to the baby.